Another 101 protesters were arrested Friday, the U.S. Capitol Police said. Kavanaugh's nomination as a replacement for retiring justice Anthony Kennedy was controversial from the start - but the initial focus was exclusively on the conservative views held by the married father of two.

Frederick Hopkins is now still at the hospital, and reportedly has a head injury and isn't able to speak to officers. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says three Florence County deputies arranged the interview around 4 p.m. So many rounds were fired with such powerful weapons that it took up to 30 minutes to get an armored vehicle close enough ...

The titanic battle to fill in the vacant ninth seat on the apex court now tied 4-4 between conservative and liberal justices hewed closely along party lines in a Senate where Republicans hold a slender 51-49 majority- except for cross-voting by two lawmakers, one from each side.

WSDF will be preparing questions to ask the congressional delegation regarding how Canada is going to dismantle the class 7 pricing, what is being done with the surplus milk, how the agreement is structured and what is included in the increased Canadian market access.

It was not clear whether Mr Meng had travelled to China on official business or for personal reasons. Meng was named president of Interpol in 2016. In July past year, Meng gave a speech on the importance of cracking down on cybercrime which observers said might reflect China's views on the issue.

The residents are told to put their names on their water containers and put them in line. Quake and tsunami-hit Indonesia starts burying its dead and asks for worldwide help after Friday's disaster left over 800 people dead and displaced tens of thousands.

They found that most fatal selfies happened in India , followed by Russian Federation, the United States and Pakistan. This is not the first time that light has been shed on the fatal risks of snapping a selfie . Of course, that wouldn't stop some people from taking photos anyway, but would at least highlight the danger involved. A notable ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , R-Ky., has already started a process that will produce a crucial test vote in his polarized chamber Friday on Kavanaugh's fate. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said Ford's story hasn't been corroborated and people should be presumed innocent until proved guilty. Bob Corker of Tennessee, who has traded barbs with T...

More than 750,000 homes lost power. Two people have been killed as the typhoon whipped Japan with powerful winds and heavy rains over the weekend, which caused damage that blocked roads and train lines. At its height, Trami packed gusts of 216 kilometres (134 miles) per hour, though it weakened as it moved over land. In Tokyo, where the eff...

The coordinated actions by both countries came hours before an expected USA indictment involving Russian attempts to hack into computer systems. British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said the incident was "part of a pattern of cyber-attacks" in other countries in which the Russian government was implicated.

Electronic devices across the United States sounded off Wednesday as the Federal Emergency Management Agency conducted its first-ever national wireless emergency alert test. October 3, 2018. It's a robust system that helps ensure public safety alerts can reach a large percentage of the population. Only telecom operators who have participated ...

Reuters news agency covered the press conference in alarmist terms, opening an article covering the event with, "Russia must halt its covert development of a banned cruise missile system or the United States will seek to destroy it before it becomes operational, Washington's envoy to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation said on Tuesday".

The investigation was expanded to add more interviews, however, the FBI did not speak with Kavanaugh , who serves as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, or his accuser Dr. Perhaps noting a change in the political winds, Republican senate candidates in Missouri and Montana have both released ads in recent days c...

In Dennis's defence, he did own up to starting the wildfire and was slapped with a misdemeanour charge of starting a fire without a permit. Those details were revealed during a court appearance Friday, the Arizona Daily Star reports .

A traitor to the motherland. "As for the Skripals, this is just another spy scandal that is being theatrically exaggerated". The Russian president repeated denials that his country was responsible for the attack, saying that there was no reason to eliminate Skripal, who was freed in a spy swap in 2010.

She will borrow the Labour leader's "For the many, not the few" slogan as she declares that Conservatives are "a party not for the few, not even for the many, but for everyone who is willing to work hard and do their best". Foster acknowledged that it "could well be the case" that the majority of people in Northern Ireland disagrees with her on equ...

Kavanaugh, she said, deserves a vote as soon as possible. "The harsh fact of the matter is that we have mounting evidence that Judge Kavanaugh is just not credible", Schumer said Monday. "The credibility of Judge Kavanaugh - that's what's before us right now", Sen. "I graduated from high school and while I did not drink, I saw a lot of people...

The magnitude 7.5 quake struck at dusk on Friday and generated a tsunami said to have been as high as 6 metres (nearly 20 feet) in places. Indonesia's military chief said soldiers and other forces have been deployed to Palu to guard any remaining key infrastructure, fuel depots and the airport - which was badly damaged - to stop any looting att...

That's just shy of the record set in November 2016, before the kingdom and allies including Russian Federation agreed to cut production to boost prices. A barrel of oil now costs about $75, continuing a steady increase over the past year. While the U.S. does not have any military bases in Saudi Arabia, neighboring Qatar hosts a large American c...

Ford at a rally in Mississippi Tuesday night, before intimating she belongs to a group of "really evil people" set out to destroy other people's lives. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the Senate will vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation this week after each senator is given a report on the ongoing FBI investigation .

In response to a United Nations court order that the USA lift sanctions on Iran, the Trump administration said on Wednesday (Thursday NZ Time) it was terminating a decades-old treaty affirming friendly relations between the two countries.

She also visited the Cape Coast castle , a former slave fort, on the second day of her solo trip to Ghana. Meanwhile, First Lady Getrude Mutharika returns home Wednesday in time to welcome the US Firs Lady. A relaxed and smiling Melania Trump arrived in Accra from Washington on Tuesday to a red-carpet welcome of traditional dancing and flag-wavi...

Kavanaugh has denied her allegation, along with allegations of sexual misconduct from two other women. 'I don't remember.' How many years ago was it? That means if all the Democrats vote against Kavanaugh, Trump could not afford to have more than one Republican oppose his nominee, with Vice President Mike Pence casting a tie-breaking vote.

The new agreement, known as the United State-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA , has a lot of wins for USA auto workers. Bradford and Kubursi both said the tough negotiations from the months leading up to the new agreement will have taught Canadian officials a little about their trading partner, President Donald Trump.

It was only a matter of time before Donald Trump expressed how he really felt about the Brett Kavanaugh case, and that happened Tuesday night when Trump directly mocked the accuser Christine Blasey Ford's testimony at a campaign rally in Mississippi.

Although initially, the police said that the constable might have opened fire in self-defence, they later accepted that excessive force had been used. "Action should also be initiated against officials who showed laxity in this case and tried to hush up the murder", Pathak told PTI. UPA chief Sonia Gandhi also spoke to the wife of Vivek and console...

And then things went off the rails as Trump continued to taunt her. There was a brief pause while the reporter, ABC's Cecilia Vega , stood up to ask her question. Sure. Can you imagine if I had? This afternoon, Donald Trump addressed reporters in a rare solo news conference. Neither ABC nor CNN had an immediate comment.

By the time he was 8, he was a millionaire. Soon after Mr. Trump graduated from college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 million a year from his father. What is the paper basing its allegations on? "The investigation also draws on tens of thousands of pages of confidential records - bank statements, financial audits, accounting ledgers, ...

Kavanaugh has emphatically denied Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that he sexually assaulted her at a gathering when they were teens. CNN sees parallels between Trump's statements and comments Donald Trump Jr. Another two messages show communication between Mr Kavanaugh's team and former classmates before The New Yorker story broke, sugg...

The USS Decatur is one of many US and allied ships that have been sailing the global waters of the South China Sea with increased frequency in order to challenge Beijing's illegal claim to the shoaled waters of the "Nine Dash Line", a sea-lane last controlled by the Chinese over a century ago.